Originally posted by: vsbarry
Alia was bigger than Parineeti after her second film (Highway), more popular actually. I clearly remember being around and remembering this
I remember being around in 2014 too and this is certainly not the case.
Alia overtook Parineeti in 2016.
When Highway came out, it was a huge success and Alia got tonnes of appreciation but Parineeti was coming off LVRB/Ishaqzaade/SDR/HTP = all hugely popular moments. Her two other films that didn't work were not released at the time of Highway, so o say Alia was more popular with Highway alone is a false narrative.
Alia scored with 2 States and Humpty Sharma while Pari had 2 duds in the second half of 2014, but they were neck-and-neck. Parineeti was still HOT property. She was offered Piku. And was in talks to do Udta Punjab.
And lets not forget the disaster that was Shaandaar in 2015.
Pari's lack of releases in 2015 and 2016 hurt her stardom level.
In 2016 when Alia had Kapoor & Sons, Udta Punjab, Dear Zindagi she overtook ALL the girls from her generation: Parineeti, Shraddha, Ileana, Yami, Sonakshi, Kriti, all of them. he immediately began challenging Deepika.
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